Volunteers put together student backpacks during the annual Back to School Shop drive-through distribution at Davenport Ridge Elementary School on Sunday.
In Photos: Stamford students thrilled to get backpacks, school supplies
‘Shop’ gives new outfits to under-resourced Stamford students
STAMFORD — Back to School Shop, Inc., an all-volunteer community organization, held its fifth annual event Sunday at Davenport Ridge Elementary School in Stamford.
More than 360 children from the Stamford public elementary schools got new back-to-school outfits and school supplies in a department store-like setting, with the help of volunteer “personal shoppers.” Nearly 250 volunteers from the community helped out at the event.
Stamford’s Back to School Shop opens for fourth year
Most children will say the best part of going back to school is the shopping: Picking out a new backpack, light-up sneakers, and even new underwear.
For about 275 young Stamford students, this year’s new school clothes and supplies were made possible by the Back to School Shop.
Stamford nursery school program teaches value of charity
On Friday mornings when Sara Walker Nursery School is in session, the light jangling of coins is heard coming from colorful plastic pouches that are clipped to toddlers’ backpacks. The coins are not their milk money, but rather, their “tzedakah.”
Stamford’s Back to School Shop provides supplies to families
The annual Back to School Shop, which benefits children who are entering kindergarten through fifth grade, was held Sunday at Davenport Ridge Elementary School.
Stamford kids kickstart school year with new gear
Desire Riddick, a rising third-grader at Domus Trailblazers Academy, smiled on Sunday pointing to a pair of glittery sneakers with blue, purple and pink zig zags, which she plans to wear on the first day of school Sept. 1.
Stamford school to turn into ‘pop-up department store’
One of the city’s elementary schools will turn into a department store this weekend. Shelves will be stocked with clothes, sneakers, school supplies, books and other items. But there will be no price tags.
Stamford Back to School “Shop”
A major sale at Target or Walmart or anywhere, really, had nothing on the one-day shopping spree 125 city kids got to experience Sunday at the first “Back to School Shop.”
John Breunig: Hearing the call to close the gap
In recent days I keep thinking about the old kids game of tin can telephone, where friends and I talked to one another across taut strings or wires. The message, of course, always got garbled as the line got longer. We can now communicate globally with no wires attached, but the message still gets distorted.